WARREN, Henry White, M. E. bishop, born in Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 4 January, 1831. He was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1853, taught natural science for two years, and in 1855 became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in the New England conference. For fir-teen years he filled posts in Boston, Worcester, Lynn, Westfield, Cambridgeport, and Charlestown. In 1861-'2 he was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives. He was pastor of the Arch street Methodist Episcopal church, Philadelphia, in 1871-'4, and again in 1877-'80. In 1881 he was elected by the Philadelphia annual conference a delegate to the general conference that assembled in Cincinnati, where he was elected bishop. He received the degree of D.D. from Dickinson college in 1872. Bishop Warren is noted as a preacher, his chief characteristics being a good voice, commanding presence, great fluency, and fine play of fancy. He has also been prolific as a writer of books, and for periodicals His residence is at Denver, Colorado, but his duties since his election have taken him over a large part of the United States, and in 1888 he visited Japan to inspect the missions of his church Besides many pamphlets and sermons, he has published "Sights and Insights, or Knowledge by Travel" (New York, 1874); "Studies of the Stars" (1878); and "Recreations in Astronomy: with Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work" (1879).